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Review of compliance: Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: Vale Assessment and Treatment Unit
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was reviewed as part of a targeted inspection programme in hospitals that care for people with learning disabilities. The Intensive Support Service provides inpatient assessment and treatment of people with a learning disability who have mental health problems or challenging behaviour. Two essential standards of quality were examined: Outcome 4: People should get safe and appropriate care that meets their needs and supports their rights; and Outcome 7: People should be protected from abuse and staff should respect their human rights. The report includes a summary describing why the review was carried out, the main findings and action required. It also provides detailed findings for the two essential standards and outcomes reviewed. Improvements were found to be needed for essential standard Outcome 4.
Review of compliance: Partnerships in Care Limited: Burston House
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Burston House was reviewed as part of a targeted inspection programme in hospitals that care for people with learning disabilities. The hospital provides assessment, treatment and continuing care to patient’s with mild to moderate learning disabilities who may also have other complex mental health problems, such as autistic spectrum disorder, aspergers syndrome, personality disorders. Two essential standards of quality were examined: Outcome 4: People should get safe and appropriate care that meets their needs and supports their rights; and Outcome 7: People should be protected from abuse and staff should respect their human rights. The report includes a summary describing why the review was carried out, the main findings and action required. It also provides detailed findings for the two essential standards and outcomes reviewed. The provider was found to be compliant with both standards of quality and safety reviewed.
Adult acute themed visit report: visit and monitoring report
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 61
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report details findings from visits to 47 mental health admission wards providing care to adults across Scotland, which were conducted to find out whether people receiving care felt their rights were being respected, identify any good practice and provide recommendations for practice. The visits reviewed the care of 323 patients and spoke to 41 carers and hospital staff. The report summarises key findings in the areas of: hospital admission, feeling safe, care planning, recovery, peer support, discharge planning, activities, consent to treatment and advance statements. The report found positive and negative findings. It identifies improvements in the physical environment, found wards were taking a more recovery-focused approach, and also found more peer support workers in wards since the last themed visit. However, the report also identifies a number of areas for improvement. These included: level of safety, with almost one in five patients spoken to reporting feeling unsafe; access to activities, with fewer than half of patients spoken to said they had the opportunity to exercise; and delays in accessing social work services affecting discharge planning. A series of recommendations are included. (Edited publisher abstract)
Protecting patients' rights: future regulation and monitoring of the Mental Health Act
- Author:
- PATEL Kamlesh
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 7(4), December 2005, pp.32-40.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The draft Mental Health Bill 2004 proposes transfer of the main monitoring functions of the Mental Health Act Commission (MHAC) to the Healthcare Commission with the abolition of the MHAC on implementation of the bill when enacted. This paper describes the present role and remit of the Mental Health Act Commission, outlines the government's strategy on inspection and regulation and identifies the importance of protecting the rights of vulnerable adults and children with mental disorders. The reasons for retaining independent scrutiny and inspection of mental health services are explored and structures and mechanisms that might assist in achieving an effective regulatory environment are proposed.
Health and Social Care Bill: February 2008
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Lords
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 201p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The main elements of the bill are firstly: to establish a new, integrated health and adult social care regulator Ofcare, from existing regulators; to define the functions of the new regulator in the areas of safety and quality assurance, information and performance assessment and safeguarding the rights of detained mental health patients; and to update the system of registration that applies to providers of health and adult social care services and extend this to include NHS providers. Further details will be set out shortly in response to the consultation on 'The future regulation of health and adult social care in England.' Second, to introduce legislation to use the civil, rather than criminal, standard of proof for all healthcare professional regulatory bodies; to create an independent adjudicator to undertake independent and objective formal adjudication for the professional regulatory bodies; and to ensure that all healthcare organisations employing or contracting with doctors appoint a 'responsible officer' with personal responsibility to work with the GMC to identify and handle cases of poor professional performance by doctors.
Health and Social Care Bill: February 2008: explanatory notes
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Lords
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 111p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The main elements of the bill are first: to establish a new, integrated health and adult social care regulator Ofcare, from existing regulators; to define the functions of the new regulator in the areas of safety and quality assurance, information and performance assessment and safeguarding the rights of detained mental health patients; and to update the system of registration that applies to providers of health and adult social care services and extend this to include NHS providers. Further details will be set out in response to the consultation on 'The future regulation of health and adult social care in England.' Second, to introduce legislation to use the civil, rather than criminal, standard of proof for all healthcare professional regulatory bodies; to create an independent adjudicator to undertake independent and objective formal adjudication for the professional regulatory bodies; and to ensure that all healthcare organisations employing or contracting with doctors appoint a 'responsible officer' with personal responsibility to work with the GMC to identify and handle cases of poor professional performance by doctors.